nature and liking for ceremony and whatever appeals to the eye or to the imagination. Men are emotional by nature; but their emotions are not usually as pure and elevated as woman's. Men like ceremonial-witness the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Elks, and hundreds of other societies for men, which use ceremonial without fail as a bait for members. The only difference between emotional man and emotional woman is that for the most part man's emotions are selfish, the woman's unselfish; the man thinks too much of the man to worship aught else; the woman thinks so little of self that her worship necessarily goes out to the only object worthy of it. Women excel men in religion because they were made by the Creator to share in His great work of making, and of saving, and of elevating men.America. NOT SO DARK AFTER ALL A recent number of the Cement Age states an interesting fact that goes to show that the Middle Ages were not so dark as pictured and that the old monks knew a thing or two that present day civilization prides itself uopn as having discovered. says: It "In the orange garden of the old Capuchin monastery, on a hillside about 300 feet above the Gulf of Amalfi, Italy, there are a number of queer, mushroom-shaped tables. These tables, apparently used by the monks for reading purposes, are about two and a half feet high and three feet in diameter at the top and two feet at the base. They are of concrete and, though, according to local authorities, of an age varying from 400 to 800 years, are in an excellent state of preservation. The excellent condition of these old tables furnishes additional proof of the durability of concrete as applied to lawn and garden ornaments." diaeval days for to this statement and he laconically remarked, "the use of cement was for years a lost art and we are now restoring it." According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Amalfi was noted in mediaeval days for her flourishing schools of law and mathematics and also occupied a high place in architecture, its Cathedral of St. Andrew and the Capuchin convent richly represent the artistic movement prevailing in Southern Italy at the time of the Normans, with its tendency to blend the Bysantine style with the forms and sharp lines of the northern architecture. TWO GOOD RULES It is a good thing to have some rules or maxims for the government of one's life. Here are two that are worth adopting: Rule I. Never be discouraged. Pretty hard rule, isn't it? Never mind the hardness of it. Just resolve to obey it. Discouragement is of the devil. He who trusts God and does right, has no business to listen to the devil, no matter what happens. God is supreme, and will win in the end; and His victory will be the victory of all who stand with Him. Rule 2. Never be a discourager. What can be meaner than to tempt another to defeat and failure in the contest of life? That is too much like the devil's work for any sensible, selfrespecting person to engage in it. Every temptation to wrong-doing has some element of discouragement in it. The old serpent discouraged Eve with her limitation and knowledge. Stand aloof from any such satanic-like work, Be a dispenser of sunshine when others are despondent. An architect's attention was called boy. ANOTHER CHAPEL CAR Another Chapel Car, to supplement the good work of St. Anthony's now famous "church on wheels," is a possibility of the near future. The project had its inception at the recent mission congress Washington, when 'Rev. Luke Evers, of New York, started the ball rolling with a contribution of $500 and the offer to raise $500 more by his own efforts. Father Evers suggested that the funds for the new car should be raised by the priests of this country exclusively, and the suggestion found favor with those present. A chapel car is worth about $12,ooo, but the directors of the project hope to secure a Pullman car that is not new at a cost of about $6,000. This figure includes the cost of remodelling the car. The new car will be named "Pius X." It will be finished in blue, the color of the Blessed Mother, with the shield and motto of the Holy Father I painted outside. It is to be an offering of the priests for mission work in honor of the Pope, who would "restore all things in Christ." No subscriptions are asked or will be accepted from laymen or from priests outside the United States. The Church Extension Society will own and operate the car. The society has found by experience that chapel cars are made self-supporting by giving them two months of exhibition and ten months of mission work. When we are dominated by irritability we are safe to give utterance to remarks which, in themselves or in the manner of our makng them, are rude and uncivil; and it is well to remember that, as Dr. Johnson puts it, "a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say. a rude thing to another than to knock him down.' HAVE to offer a high-class 6 per cent guaranteed investment, guaranteed as to principal and interest, secured by Real Estate and other assets of double the amount of the entire issue; interest payable on the first days of January and July, and the principal payable in 1914. These securities are of the par value of $250 each, and have been issued by a well established and highly rated manufacturing corporation. As stated, the principal and interest are guaranteed, therefore making same a high class investment. If you have any idle funds, I would be pleased to hear from you, in order that you can investigate and avail yourself of this offer. B. F. J. KIERNAN 299 Broadway, New York City Banking References:-Colonial Bank, 81st St. & Columbus Ave., N. Y. City. Corn Exchange Bank, 113th St. & Broadway, N. Y. City. Adirondack Trust Co., Saratoga Springs, N. Y. NEED OF CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLS There is a tendency in many quarters to imagine that there is no danger to the child's faith, once he has received an elementary education under Catholic direction, and that it is strong enough to weather the storm. of baleful influence for all time to come. No greater mistake could be made. The age of the child is a dangerous and elastic one, and no sacrifice should be avoided to help that child receive all his education under the shadow of the Church. People hold up their hands and cry out, "so much else must be done, churches built, etc. Better a simple church than to neglect the rising generation, for fear that in the future you may have none to fill your expensive temples, if you do not ground the youth in solid faith. In one word, when at all possible a high school, giving all the advantages in an educational way that the public school system does, should be the aim of every parish, and I venture the prophecy that this will in the near future be church legislation in this country. It is done in many places, it can be done in all places eventually when a parochial school has taken. root in the hearts of the people and when the people do not have to say: "Ill fares the school, To latest fads a prey, And the three R's decay." It is really amazing the efforts that authorities, both State and local, make for the physical care of schools, neglecting the all-important one of the soul. Plans are now being hatched for introducing the subject of social hygiene in some public schools; fire protection-a good thing in itself, is carried to foolish limits and the essentials of true education are sadly neglected. The State system is proving also a heavy burden to the taxpayer and the growth of popular opposition to it as now conducted is growing, and the future historian will have a sad page to record-if he records cor_ rectly-millions for the mind-nothing for the soul. A little story from the East Side in New York may point a moral. A lad from a Russian-Jewish home was frequently reprimanded by his teacher for his uncleanly appearance and foreign habits, but to no avail. A note was dispatched to his mother, couched in stilted language, stating among other things that the boy was offensive to the nostrils of the teacher. A reply came back to this effect: "My little Jakey is no rose-please don't. smell him no more-shust learn him." It is not so important for a youth to be taught how to build or purchase a costly house, as it is for him to be taught how to occupy it with Christian dignity and honor. DRAFTS AND MONEY ORDERS On England, Ireland and Scotland, as well as on European Cities PASSAGE TICKETS Second and Third class on all steamship lines. TRAVELERS' CHEQUES IRISH EMIGRANT SOCIETY, 51 Chambers St., New York SIMPLICITY AND GREATNESS The simplicity of really eminent men is so common as to warrant the belief that the quality in question is one of the constituents of greatness. We have a striking illustration of the truth of this in the life of the late Marquis of Ripon. We quote the fol lowing extracts from his funeral sermon preached by Father Bernard Vaughan: "Great men are very simple. He who was so ardent a politcian, so keen a sportsman, and so ready a conversationalist upon a wide range of subjects, a Cabinet Minister and a foreigin Viceroy, was in his spiritual life as simple as the child put before us by Our Lord in the Gospel. He loved such pious practices as putting up a penny candle before Our Lady's statue, placing a flower from his buttonhole at her feet, and telling her Beads, and singing her hymns with a heart brimful of joy. His crucifix His crucifix he liked to hold in the hollow of his hand, pressing it with pious ejaculations to his lips. Was he not a Catholic to his finger-tips? Characteristic of him was the incident which I must tell you. Shortly before he breathed. his last, his chaplain attemtped to draw from his hands a crucifix, that he might bless him with it; but our dying friend looked up, smiled, and with both his hands clutched his cross, as though he meant to say, "I can not part with it for a moment." When the end came, like a child falling asleep, he closed his eyes forever to this world, but he opened them to see the smile of the Master he served so loyally." "Unless you become as little children," said Our Lord, "you shall not enter into the Kngdom of Heaven." And, verily, in matters of religious belief and practice, is there any attitude more congruous for even the most scholarly and learned than that of the little child's simplicity? Happy they who, like the deceased nobleman, preserve that attitude throughout their life! THE CARE OF HOLY WATER A matter which sometimes receives too little attention is the cleanliness of holy water vases. It is a matter easy of oversight to fail in purifying them before renewing the supply of It may happen newly-blest water. that for weeks and months one keeps adding without thinking of cleansing the vase of the sediments which are apt to gather. To this circumstance may in a measure be attributed the frequent attacks to which holy water is exposed in latter years. It is sometimes charged that these vases are breeding places for bacilli. Want of cleanliness in this respect-which is the case, sad be it to remark, in the attacks. Therefore, regard should many places has given occasion for be had for the cleanliness of the vases, SOUR CRITICS There are, unhappily for themselves, persons so constituted that they have not the heart to be generous .... People of this sort often come to regard the success of others, even in a good work, as a kind of personal offence. They can not bear to hear another praised, especially if he belong to their own art, calling, or profession. They will pardon a man's failures, but cannot forgive his doing a thing better than they can do it; and where they themselves have failed they are found to be the most The sour merciless of detractors. critic thinks of his rival: When Heaven with such parts has blessed him, Have I not reason to detest him. When looking for faults which need correction, use a mirror, not a tele scope. The College of St. Angela, New Rochelle, N. Y. The College of Saint Angela, founded in 1904, is the only Catholic College for women in New York State. It offers a four years' course leading to a bachelor's degree of art, science or music. Its graduates are recognized by the Regents of the State of New York, and by the Educational Department of New York City as having the same careful preparation given in the New York State colleges of highest rank. Special attention is given to the study of music and art. In the Extension centres, courses of college rank are given. Teachers are trained for New York State and New York City licenses. Extension Departments: New York Park Ave. and 93d Street; Brooklyn, Montrose and Graham Aves.; Albany, St. Patrick's Institute. |